[sailaway21]

Rather irrelevant unless one is buying a new one, I'd say. why would you buy either a new snowblower or a new outboard when there are so many good used ones around. It's hardly uncommon to see an outboard of advanced age out on the water putting along just fine. Go down to your local repair shop and buy an outboard with a pedigree. Get something with a proven track record versus one of these new and unproven types.

And, for what it's worth, I just re-built the carb on my wife's roto-tiller which is an old Troy-bilt with a 4 HP Tecumseh engine on it. Rebuild kit cost-$11.63. Try that on your shiny new Honda.

If we looked for used half as hard as we research new we all might be a tad bit happier. Who are you going to trust more, the salesman selling you a brand new outboard that he actually knows nothing about or that guy that's had his on the back of a boat for the last 15-20 years? Let somebody else be the test dummy!